He’s been murdered by me and then I covered him up with a blanket and hat so you’d think he was sleeping on this 11 hour flight while I escape through the landing gear and rescue my daughter before her captors realize I’m not on this plane.
Greetings from my hovel on the shores of the Bow.
So, yeah. I watched COMMANDO (1985) for the first time. That’s a pretty incredible movie. The stunts are great and it takes itself seriously, but not so seriously that it’s joyless and laughable. It’s sort of like the platonic ideal of 80s tough-guy action. The stunts are great, the one-liners walk the line between cool and hilarious perfectly. When things begin to get a little too testosteroney there’s a character to cut to who will make a joke about how absurdly macho what is happening is and lets us know that the movie is in on it. It’s really quite a remarkable piece of action writing… plus, Arnold Schwarzenegger kills like a zillion dudes with a machine gun. I want someone to lift me up and play with me like Arnold does to baby Alyssa Milano in that movie…
The reason I watched it was I watched two documentaries about action movies. IN SEARCH OF THE LAST ACTION HERO (2019) and IRON FISTS AND KUNG FU KICKS (2019). Between the two I’d recommend the latter more as I was more interested in hearing about martial arts movies, but they’re both worth a watch.
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